Apologies. There was a technical glitch with this post. Maybe it was taken down by anti-Russian supporters, half joking, half serious. Anything is possible these days.
The post was remembering January 31, 1943, the day that Feld Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to Marshal Georgy Zhukov on the banks of the Volga at Stalingrad.
It was probably the most significant day in World War II. From there the Soviet Army raced to Berlin and again it was Zhukov who arrived in the city, this time before his fellow marshal, Konev.
It was in Karlshorst, the eastern suburb of Berlin on May 8/9 that Zhukov signed the German capitulation document. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed on behalf of Germany.
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